writing about horrible things shouldn't make me feel happy ~

but i can't help it ~ it does.

: D

navicat always has such a nice little updater announcement and today i am feeling pretty good after the thoes of death on sunday night, so i thought i would copy the format for funsies.

this is From Slaughter Mountain: take 187 (this scene: "A Horse on the Road").

2,000 / 10,000,000,000 (0.0%)

like my counter? (snark)

scene synop: immediately after the battle at Cedar Mountain, our intrepid D Company squad goes down the hill to see what there is to see before night falls.

darling: The man’s arm was hanging by shreds of skin, but he was in too much shock to realize it. When he moved, the fractured bone twirled so that the limb spun like a bloody wind chime.

mean things: see above. that and the subtitular dead horse and pretty much a whole bunch of other things like the barf in the ambulance (for which, i must add, i showed a great deal of restraint given my original impulse was to wax on about Sharp having holes in his shoes while having to stand in it).

random fun fact: an estimated one and a half million horses and mules died in service to the armies during the Civil War (that's more than two dead animals for every one dead man).

in the future, i'll really have to keep vigilant that all my darlings and mean things don't overlap all the time. of course, perhaps "mean things" is just redundant anyway, given the nature of this story.



national sporting library
Civil War horse memorial
middleberg, VA